Vertigo
The nearest thing to a Golden Age star at this year's Oscars was Kim Novak, and her appearance set Twitter a-flutter, and not in a good way. I prefer to remember her the way she was when I, very briefly, met her, at the time of her last movie, Mike Figgis' Liebestraume (1991). She was a beautiful middle-aged woman then, but she didn't enjoy the experience, and so it proved to be her final film. More of a distant vision of a star than the real thing, Miss Novak gave two good performances in two very different Sinatra films (The Man With The Golden Arm and Vertigo), and one other role ensured that she will last as long as movies do... |
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Happy WarriorWhere The Action Is
This column appears in the March 10th issue of National Review, but is especially timely in the week of all the pitching and wooing of CPAC: People keep asking me whom I favor for the 2016 Republican nomination. I politely demur — and not just because it's almost three years till Election Day, and at this stage in the 2008 cycle I'm not sure I'd ever heard of Barack Obama. As a resident of a New Hampshire township with more than 37 people, I don't have to seek out presidential candidates; they're there at the inn and the general store and the diner and the Grange. I've seen enough next-presidents-of-the-United-States for several lifetimes: Phil Gramm, Pete Wilson, Bob Dornan, Elizabeth Dole, Orrin Hatch, Gary Bauer, Lamar Alexander, Tom Tancredo, Tommy Thompson, Alan Keyes... The Hugh Hewitt ShowGlobaloney and Gasbags
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A Toronto courtroom hosts an encore of the 2008 "human rights" cases SteynPostsShifting the Culture
Steyn's "rapturously received" speech in Ottawa Steyn's Song of the WeekHooray For Hollywood
To close out our Oscar weekend, here's a Song of the Week encore as Steyn celebrates a number that's survived as the industry's theme song for three-quarters of a century... Mann vs SteynFootball and HockeyThe Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
Defend Free Speech!A Guacalypse Now!
I was distracted from my upcoming trial of the century by my comrade Ezra Levant's trial of the century in Ontario Superior Court last week. However, in my few moments outside court, I did have a chance to catch up with both legal and scientific friends in Toronto to help prepare for serving discovery requests on Michael E Mann, deposition of Dr Mann, my counterclaim against Mann, and various other matters. I also found Ezra's performance in court yesterday hugely inspiring. (You can read more ... SteynPosts"What is a Satrap?"
Today, yet again, I'll be in court for the fifth day of the Ezra Levant trial. In this strange and unnecessary rerun of the Canadian Islamic Congress' three "human rights" complaints from five years ago, as Christie Blatchford mentioned yesterday, the lawyers are lawyers, the parties are lawyers, and the witnesses are lawyers. And then it all went wrong... Yesterday afternoon, in a bit of idle chit-chat with the lawyer-plaintiff's lawyer's co-lawyer, Angela Chaisson, I complained that the last three witnesses had all been lawyers - my old friend Julian Porter, QC; my not so old but reasonably genial accuser from the Maclean's case, Naseem Mithoowani; and the plaintiffs' counsel from the British Columbia trial, Faisal Joseph. So I was somewhat lawyered out. Unfortunately, after three back-to-back lawyer-witnesses, the first non-lawyer to be heard in this trial turned out to be a total loon... Steyn on Canada and the CommonwealthDoing the Jobs Canadians Won't Do
Being confined for a week to a Canadian courtroom, I have been taking a keen interest in the many laws it's possible to run afoul of up here. For example:
Defend Free Speech!Chief Spokesman of the League of Anti-Semites Stunned to Discover Organization is Anti-Semitic
I'm not "Islamophobic" and "racist", only my writing Defend Free Speech!The Lie That Won't Die
The Ayatollah Khomeini's settled science Mark's MailboxThe Stick Buckles
Harry Lauder, climate scientist, leads off another lively round-up of reader mail on everything from eugenics from Hugh Jackman |
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